We Love Color – Blog Tour and Giveaway!

Hi all! Welcome to my stop on the tour! If this is your first visit, please feel free to click around and get to know me a bit.

I am so honored to be included in the fabulous group of designers in We Love Color – I hope you’ve been following the tour so far! There’s some great info to learn about each designer, along with lots of chances to win a book and fabric.

We Love Color has 16 projects, featuring Kona Solids. The projects are varied and beautiful, offering inspiration for every quilter. The best part about working with Kona Solids, is the vast color options – any of these quilts could be replicated with your own color choices to make it uniquely yours!

I find color inspiration all around me, in nature, photographs, my kids’ artwork, random fabrics on my shelf together even, there aren’t many places that inspiration isn’t found!

While piecing my quilt last year, I shared a picture of my pieces in progress.

I love all the colors and the subtle movement they create in the quilt top. Strip piecing made quick work of all these units!

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We are all sharing our favorite Kona color as part of the tour, picking a favorite is nearly impossible! If I must though, I have been loving Midnight, it is a complex purple, navy color.

The swatch on the computer screen barely conveys the depth of color and complexity. I love it! I have a recent project here with Midnight for a little more of a look.

Have you seen the new Kona colors? Kaufman is releasing 28 new colors this month, and I’m dying to get my hands on them, and a new color card! One that stood out to me right away is Alegria.

It’s fresh and reminds me of the endless blue sky in the summer here in Utah – I’m so glad for all that sunshine!

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***Would you like to win a copy of We Love Color, and a fat quarter bundle of the new colors? Here’s your chance!

What gives me color inspiration is usually grouping and re-grouping fabrics into piles. Obviously this method is flawed, in that if I do not have it in my stash, I cannot come up with a great color combo using it! The other inspiration is simply plates of food…what appeals to me on a plate, is often what will appeal to me in a quilt!

I agree with you, inspiration is everywhere. Sometimes, I’m not really looking for inspiration-it just finds me. It could be in the color or pattern of carpeting or wallpaper, in the flower garden or farmer’s market, in my closet or the pages of a magazine.

I love to find color inspiration just about anywhere. Usually it’s this ah-ha moment where I’ll be looking at something rather ordinary and suddenly see something that I hadn’t before. Taking photos is also a great way to find color inspiration. Sometimes seeing something in person doesn’t quite trigger the same response as looking back through the photos of that same thing. Landscapes, for instance, always do that for me. :)

My favorite place? Looking through my Quilts Japan magazines inspires–the quilters there seem to have very different ideas for what works, and some I find challenging! :-) Also, I like to play with the ideas of color theory to help me with combinations. Sometimes a treasured piece of fabric will give me fresh ideas to try new things, like limited palette or tonal.
Hazle
suntred02 at aol.com

I love Kona, and am pretty much a loyal exclusive Kona user haha. I use photographs for inspiration. Similar to design seeds. Let’s say I have a specific theme like retro, I will search the web for retro photos and take colors from then.

I’m a brand new quilter, and I seem to be seeing potential in colour everywhere I look right now! Quilting blogs give me great ideas about colour combinations that work well, and how small changes in placement can make a big change to a design.

thank you for the opportunity! well, sure it would be cool to win this book! :)
about colors – I look to the sky. evening or morning. above the city or above the sea. in winter or in summer…. it’s so different, and every time it’s perfect…. I love nature colors…
hugs from Russia,
masha

Midnight is one of my favs too! Such a great color. I get color inspiration online (Design Seeds is great or Browsing Flickr photos), but I’ve recently been trying to find more in person inspiration, too. Snapping lots of pictures of nature, cool buildings, anything I see that catches my eye that could become a great quilt.

That is a tough question. I get inspiraton from so many places but most of all, I look at significant things in my life around me whether it be things in nature, objects I see together at work or the firehouse, or just a bunch of my kidlets toys all piled together.

Once a quilter truly opens her eyes, the possibilities become endless.

My favorite place for color inspiration is a walk around my neighborhood when the flowers are in bloom. Unfortunately, during the winter, I have to settle for blogs and Pinterest. Thanks for the contest!

I always go to the Detroit Zoo. From the bright colors of the plants and butterflies in the butterfly house to the icy cool colors at the polar bear exhibit there is always something to inspire a quilt!

i find inspiration from so many places, pinterest, fabric store, quilt books, blogs and magazines however my favorite place is in nature.
i live in an area that is very touristy in the warmer months so parks and gardens, water…rivers, falls and a lake surround my area and nature trails are plentiful. i love how in the wild of nature unexpected colours mixes just happen naturally and look so beautiful!!
even in the winter….ice and snow and cold water…so many shades of grey, white, blue and black!

Going outside at various times of the day throughout the changing seasons in the many places I have lived has been a constant inspiration for my quilting and dye projects. Spending my first fall in western PA the past year was like color sensory overload, and I loved every minute of it.
My family and I are fond of walks at sunset because the sky is a beautiful pink with touches of blue. It quickly takes you out of the city and into a world of imagination.

My favorite place to go for color inspiration are my charity quilts. Making over 100 a year, I am limited by the fabrics that are given to me. Thus, I find I’m using colors I wouldn’t normally put together…sometimes with UGH! results and sometimes with surprising results.

My favorite color inspirations always come from outside. We have gorgeous pastel sunrises in winter with the barest hints of color, fiery sunsets in spring and summer, crunchy, flower filled falls… How could one not be completely inspired?

I love the subtle color gradations found in nature – tree bark, a bird feather, the veggies and berries in our garden, first light and sunset skies following a thunderstorm. Thanks for the chance to win some of the new Kona solids!

My favorite place for color inspiration is a neat website called “Design Seeds”. Every day there are gorgeous pictures with a sample palette pulled from the image. The names of the palettes are part of the inspiration as well. Thanks for the chance to win!

I’m loving the new colors, especially Tulip and Regal. I’m very glad you showed us something you made using Midnight because that is a gorgeous color of purple. I may never have given that a second thought given the name of Midnight which I would assume to be a shade of black, not purple at all. Thank you.

Almost all my inspiration right now comes from the many blogs I follow/read each day. I’m noticing lately however, that I am starting to see things more and more while hubby and I are out driving around to different places.

There is so much color inspiration everywhere, but my favorite is nature. Blue and white from the sky. Orange, red and green from a flower. The colors of a sunset. The sand and the ocean. Then I go paw through my fabric and pull out colors that excite me to create.

Hey, that midnight fabric is the bomb. I have used it quite a lot lately.

So in my country if you look around you, it is posible to se the green mountains eather the volcanos too, so you can drive around 2 hours and find the beach too. Those are my favorites places for inspirations.

A walk outside and looking over flower and vegetable beds is my norm, but to find new [to me] color combinations I spend time looking over fabric bundles that others have put together on fabric and quilting blog/store sites. I love the new ‘modern’ quilting combos, but none of them would be something I would think to put together so I spend time paying attention to the work of others.

I have to be honest, the majority of my inspiration for color is seeing what others are doing on the internet. I have seen color combos that I would have never put together. My LQS is also good at inspiration. It’s wonderful to have a good group of quilty friends too!

Hi, Amy! Congrats on being part of this wonderful tour. I have not worked with solids alone in a quilt but have a drawer full of them and have wanted to make something great out of these piles. I get my color inspiration lots of places–primarily when shopping, either at the fabric store, department store, or even the discount store! Lots of designers and creative folks’ work is already out there to just discover. There is always my favorite color to incorporate too (green)!

Walking around Park City is pure inspiration. Not just for color but lifestyle too! We have amazing contrasts between all seasons, beautiful holiday lights, wildlife in abundance, the best trail network in America, summer markets, art galleries, Historic Main St, ski fields, golf gourses and those year round Utah blue skies! I could keep going but will refrain. There is color everywhere we go.
My 3 year olds fav saying at the moment is “What sort of color?”

I love looking online, either blogs, pinterest to see what colors others use. Sometimes I see colors together that I never would have thought to put together but when I see them I’m like, of course that works!

I like to go the market – either to the local farmer market or to one of the turkish markets in the centre of Berlin. Especially on the turkish markets, you can find, besides the wonderfully coloured vegetables and fruits, a lot of stalls where you can buy fabrics at a bargain.

OH! So many places inspire my love and addiction to color!! Quilt stores, book stores, Pinterest, blogland, my own stash closet, art shows, magazines…and especially out in the natural world!! life is just toooooo short to live in shades of grey!! Color makes everything better!! Thanks for the givaway!!

The obvious answer is the internet, I mean, what isn’t up on it? But sometimes it’s great to get away from the computer and snuggle with a book and for that I love Kaffe Fassett’s Glorious Inspiration. It’s not one of his project books, just amazing photos from museums and life, and a complete riot of colour.

I found my new favorite color combos while driving to Hilton Head from Memphis earlier this year – the trees covered in varying purple blooms, light green early-growth leaves and gray tree trunks – was truly stunning!

Everywhere, is the short answer! Most recently driving through the mountains. The greens of the trees, especially the new brilliant greens of the Aspen trees, mixed with the deep green of the pines and the reds, grays, and browns of the mountains topped with dirty white snowcaps, and the colors of fast rushing streams from the snowmelt. Thank you!

Inspiration for colour?
The mediteranean blue sky, azure seas, the illuminating sheen on the feathers of a mallard ducks neck, the strawberry blonde hair of a toddler, the lush greens in a hedgerow, the patches and marls in tortoiseshell cats fur…..the chocolate, coffee and vanilla of ice cream…..how long have you got?
I could list sooooo many more creatively inspiring gems……..but there’d be no room for any one elses comments!

I get my color inspiration from walking up and down the isle at the fabric store till I find a focal fabric and then I start adding my other fabrics. I usually have some idea of what I am looking for and go on that. I love these colors. Bright is good. Its happy and uplifting.

I don’t have a particular place I go for color inspiration – it can be magazines, blogs, nature, etc. I just try to find it in everything. Usually the most inspirational things come from unxpected places.

I have Joen Wolfrom’s Studio Color Wheel hanging in my quilt room, and am finding lot’s of inspiration from that, I also live close to three National Parks and take lots of photos and use them as my inspiration for my quilts.

Color inspiration most of the time comes unexpectantly for me. Outside or inside it always amazes me when I suddenly feel that ‘click’ of inspiration. Who knew that I would look at a bowl of Froot Loops and know that those were the colors I was waiting for!

My favorite place to go for color inspiration is outside in nature, especially “Mama’s Garden.” This is where my mother plants flowering shrubs, plants and trees that she either grew from seed or cuttings, or is a “pass along” plant. Something is always blooming in Mama’s Garden. Thanks for the photos of your quilty contribution to the book, and the chance to win. mlwright29(at)hotmail(dot)com

I just walk into a quilt store and get my color inspiration. I am loving all the new fabrics coming out and I have always loved Kona cotton. Wouldn’t that be a nice surprise to win this wonderful book!

I sit at my large kitchen window, or out on my deck, and watch nature take her course through the seasons across our back yard, and the pastures and woodlands beyond…the whites, blues and blacks of winter, the pale greens and bursts of pastels in the spring, the deep greens and jewel tones of the summer, the bright swaths of brilliant color in the autumn, and always the colors of the western sky at dusk. Often have a quilt book or magazine in my lap; never fails to inspire either an urge to begin another quilt, or to relax and enjoy an old one (or at least a another picture of one I’d like to make)!

The best place to be inspired by color is in nature…the sky, sea, most especially gardens. This past weekend I spent some time on my daughter’s college campus and the flowers and greenery there is such so, so beautiful!
So I must not forget “nature”!

I’a have to say just about any place online has color “juice”, but really love looking at quilt blogs and pinterest…colorful world, that’s for sure. My hubby has a birds board on pinterest and wow! Talk about color. Thanks for the opportunity and have a colorful day

Living in New Orleans, all I have to do is take a walk down the block. The color combinations people choose for their shotguns are, at times, stunning. Whenever I see a beautifully painted, bright house I think – “Quilt!”

I go to my favorite quilt bloggers for inspiration. While other people may take a coffee break or a stretch at work, I click onto a quilting site and see the beautiful color combinations the quilters come up with. It’s truly refreshing and inspiring.

Midnight is so versatile, I can see why it is your favorite. I love purples so this color would be wonderful to incorporate in my quilts. This tour is expanding my quilting world. Thank you for an opportunity to win the book and fabric….wonderful combinations.

I look for inspiration in flowers and on websites of fabric shops and blogs. Also dream land, I had a dream this week about an amazing wall hanging I made for my bedroom, and I saw the colours and patterns together in close up. Thank you for a great giveaway.

I responded to one comment but did not leave my own “source” of color inspiration. When I really think about it, I believe that I am drawn to colors that are in some way connected to my emotions. The colors are all around, but the combinations or concentrations that stand out for me on any given day seem to be those that my mood attaches to.

I’m looking forward to reading this book one way or another! Thank you for the giveaway. I get my inspiration from interior design magazines, if there’s a room I love it’s usually because of the beautiful color combos in it!

I think color inspiration finds me more than I find it! Every now and then I will see something in magazines or online that inspires me, and often Nature shows me beautiful color combinations I may never have thought of.

I like going to Pinterest. It’s easy to search through projects that other people have done to get an idea of something that I want to do. It’s nice to see how their project turned out to see if I would like colors together too. Thanks!

For me i get my insperation when I recieve the new books I purchase and am amazed at so many colour mixtures, today I recieved my Modern Patchwork and combine this with We love Colour and you get ideas poping out of your mind, it’s like when I took my grandaughter yesterday into the toy store for the 1st time and she is only just turning 1 her little face lit up and her eyes were everywhere, the colours were everywhere, she did’nt know where to look and colour just comes at you, its about putting it all together, like a long adventure that you hope you thouroughly enjou

My favorite place to go is just outside specifically when the sunsets. It’s amazing how different the sky can be on a different day. I also live in Utah and we do have some amazing skies here especially against the mountains!

I do go to one exact place for inspiration of color. I just know what I want to use, or I go by my mood. I love a lot of different looks, but I usually have an idea of what I want even before I start making something. Thank you, so much, for the chance to win.

I get most of my color inspiration from fabric. Sometimes I chose colors that are either in or coordinate with a specific fabric, but mostly I just pull a bunch of different fabric together and see what happens. I go in binges where I am drawn to certain colors and combos subconsciously, which generally means I am onto something! Not all of my experiments work, but I love the process (and I love fabric).

I find color inspiration everywhere. The candy racks at the store, Pier 1 Imports, World Market, Pottery Barn, Land of Nod, my garden, google image searches, museum websites, and french clothing websites just to name a few.

Recently I have been noticing that I like the color combos in some classic children’s books. Caps For Sale and Green Eggs and Ham have some great color combos. Let’s just call looking for color inspiration while reading my kidos books multitasking, not obsession. ;)

It’s everywhere! I never know when a group of colors will just jump out at me and grab my attention – a shop window, a greeting card, even a printed fabric :-) Isn’t it great that we have materials in every imaginable color to create from?

I really like looking at clothing for color inspiration. So often I see combinations that I never would’ve thought of. This is such a great giveaway. I’m practically giddy at the thought of winning. Thanks for the chance!

I’d love to win this book. I have always liked working with solids!
Lately, my favorite place to go for color inspiration has been the produce section of the supermarket! Crazy I know, but it’s almost like the florist this time of year! Every bright color imaginable, and every shade in between.

I love modern quilting and Robert Kaufman Solids just seem to go hand in hand with many of my projects! I find inspiration through the world around me. The boldness in modern architecture, subtleties in color ranges, light and dark contrasts that pop unexpectedly from a project. I also love to study Modern Artists who paint in different mediums. Thank you for the opportunity to enter!

My favorite place for color inspiration is in the woods. This time of year all the wildflowers are in bloom. Right now my hillside is alive in yellow and white daisies. Different flowers come up and bloom from spring until late fall. Up in the woods there are so many colors of green. I love it. I would love to win the new colors and the book with all the talented Modern Artists in Quilting. Thank you for your continued inspiration and the wonderful giveaway.

My favorite place for color inspiration is just to step outside my front door! I see the green trees and the pops of color the flowers give, I see the sky with clouds, and I see the grey rocks of the driveway with the grasses. It takes my breath away. :)

My favorite place to go is to travel along the backroads of the Ozarks and see all the BEAUTIFUL wildflowers growing here, there and everywhere. We like to take walks and see all the little beauties tucked under trees, behind rocks, growing OUT of rocks… the most obscure places. Thanks for the chance to win such a FAB prize!

Thank you for sponsoring this giveaway. For color inspiration I often look at magazines and not just quilting magazines. I’ll look at magazines like Country Living, Cottage Style, and HGTV. When I see a room I particularly like, I’ll make note of the color cominations used in the room. If they work in a room, they’ll work in a quilt!

My inspiration tends to come from the fabrics themselves and pairing them up with various solids. I cut up my Kona color card into swatches, and I love to play around with different color combinations.

I find that I get the best color choices from nature. We live in the farming community outside of town. I love to drink a cup of coffee while looking at the view of the mountains with the beautiful colors in it, the sky, clouds, cows next to us, our chickens, the cherry orchard across the street from us, and the golden valleys all around us. There is soo much to get inspired in color around us. Thank you for the giveaway. I liked the sky blue you have up.

Color inspiration for me is a flower garden, or a walk in my woods – at any time of year. Right now though, its lunch time and I’m inspired by my bowl of blueberry granola .. thinking of a tan, blue-purple quilt!

What gives me color inspiration is usually grouping and re-grouping fabrics into piles. Obviously this method is flawed, in that if I do not have it in my stash, I cannot come up with a great color combo using it! The other inspiration is simply plates of food…what appeals to me on a plate, is often what will appeal to me in a quilt!

I agree with you, inspiration is everywhere. Sometimes, I’m not really looking for inspiration-it just finds me. It could be in the color or pattern of carpeting or wallpaper, in the flower garden or farmer’s market, in my closet or the pages of a magazine.

I love to find color inspiration just about anywhere. Usually it’s this ah-ha moment where I’ll be looking at something rather ordinary and suddenly see something that I hadn’t before. Taking photos is also a great way to find color inspiration. Sometimes seeing something in person doesn’t quite trigger the same response as looking back through the photos of that same thing. Landscapes, for instance, always do that for me. :)

My favorite place? Looking through my Quilts Japan magazines inspires–the quilters there seem to have very different ideas for what works, and some I find challenging! :-) Also, I like to play with the ideas of color theory to help me with combinations. Sometimes a treasured piece of fabric will give me fresh ideas to try new things, like limited palette or tonal.
Hazle
suntred02 at aol.com

I love Kona, and am pretty much a loyal exclusive Kona user haha. I use photographs for inspiration. Similar to design seeds. Let’s say I have a specific theme like retro, I will search the web for retro photos and take colors from then.

I’m a brand new quilter, and I seem to be seeing potential in colour everywhere I look right now! Quilting blogs give me great ideas about colour combinations that work well, and how small changes in placement can make a big change to a design.

thank you for the opportunity! well, sure it would be cool to win this book! :)
about colors – I look to the sky. evening or morning. above the city or above the sea. in winter or in summer…. it’s so different, and every time it’s perfect…. I love nature colors…
hugs from Russia,
masha

Midnight is one of my favs too! Such a great color. I get color inspiration online (Design Seeds is great or Browsing Flickr photos), but I’ve recently been trying to find more in person inspiration, too. Snapping lots of pictures of nature, cool buildings, anything I see that catches my eye that could become a great quilt.

That is a tough question. I get inspiraton from so many places but most of all, I look at significant things in my life around me whether it be things in nature, objects I see together at work or the firehouse, or just a bunch of my kidlets toys all piled together.

Once a quilter truly opens her eyes, the possibilities become endless.

My favorite place for color inspiration is a walk around my neighborhood when the flowers are in bloom. Unfortunately, during the winter, I have to settle for blogs and Pinterest. Thanks for the contest!

I always go to the Detroit Zoo. From the bright colors of the plants and butterflies in the butterfly house to the icy cool colors at the polar bear exhibit there is always something to inspire a quilt!

i find inspiration from so many places, pinterest, fabric store, quilt books, blogs and magazines however my favorite place is in nature.
i live in an area that is very touristy in the warmer months so parks and gardens, water…rivers, falls and a lake surround my area and nature trails are plentiful. i love how in the wild of nature unexpected colours mixes just happen naturally and look so beautiful!!
even in the winter….ice and snow and cold water…so many shades of grey, white, blue and black!

Going outside at various times of the day throughout the changing seasons in the many places I have lived has been a constant inspiration for my quilting and dye projects. Spending my first fall in western PA the past year was like color sensory overload, and I loved every minute of it.
My family and I are fond of walks at sunset because the sky is a beautiful pink with touches of blue. It quickly takes you out of the city and into a world of imagination.

My favorite place to go for color inspiration are my charity quilts. Making over 100 a year, I am limited by the fabrics that are given to me. Thus, I find I’m using colors I wouldn’t normally put together…sometimes with UGH! results and sometimes with surprising results.

My favorite color inspirations always come from outside. We have gorgeous pastel sunrises in winter with the barest hints of color, fiery sunsets in spring and summer, crunchy, flower filled falls… How could one not be completely inspired?

I love the subtle color gradations found in nature – tree bark, a bird feather, the veggies and berries in our garden, first light and sunset skies following a thunderstorm. Thanks for the chance to win some of the new Kona solids!

My favorite place for color inspiration is a neat website called “Design Seeds”. Every day there are gorgeous pictures with a sample palette pulled from the image. The names of the palettes are part of the inspiration as well. Thanks for the chance to win!

I’m loving the new colors, especially Tulip and Regal. I’m very glad you showed us something you made using Midnight because that is a gorgeous color of purple. I may never have given that a second thought given the name of Midnight which I would assume to be a shade of black, not purple at all. Thank you.

Almost all my inspiration right now comes from the many blogs I follow/read each day. I’m noticing lately however, that I am starting to see things more and more while hubby and I are out driving around to different places.

There is so much color inspiration everywhere, but my favorite is nature. Blue and white from the sky. Orange, red and green from a flower. The colors of a sunset. The sand and the ocean. Then I go paw through my fabric and pull out colors that excite me to create.

Hey, that midnight fabric is the bomb. I have used it quite a lot lately.

So in my country if you look around you, it is posible to se the green mountains eather the volcanos too, so you can drive around 2 hours and find the beach too. Those are my favorites places for inspirations.

A walk outside and looking over flower and vegetable beds is my norm, but to find new [to me] color combinations I spend time looking over fabric bundles that others have put together on fabric and quilting blog/store sites. I love the new ‘modern’ quilting combos, but none of them would be something I would think to put together so I spend time paying attention to the work of others.

I have to be honest, the majority of my inspiration for color is seeing what others are doing on the internet. I have seen color combos that I would have never put together. My LQS is also good at inspiration. It’s wonderful to have a good group of quilty friends too!

Hi, Amy! Congrats on being part of this wonderful tour. I have not worked with solids alone in a quilt but have a drawer full of them and have wanted to make something great out of these piles. I get my color inspiration lots of places–primarily when shopping, either at the fabric store, department store, or even the discount store! Lots of designers and creative folks’ work is already out there to just discover. There is always my favorite color to incorporate too (green)!

Walking around Park City is pure inspiration. Not just for color but lifestyle too! We have amazing contrasts between all seasons, beautiful holiday lights, wildlife in abundance, the best trail network in America, summer markets, art galleries, Historic Main St, ski fields, golf gourses and those year round Utah blue skies! I could keep going but will refrain. There is color everywhere we go.
My 3 year olds fav saying at the moment is “What sort of color?”

I love looking online, either blogs, pinterest to see what colors others use. Sometimes I see colors together that I never would have thought to put together but when I see them I’m like, of course that works!

I like to go the market – either to the local farmer market or to one of the turkish markets in the centre of Berlin. Especially on the turkish markets, you can find, besides the wonderfully coloured vegetables and fruits, a lot of stalls where you can buy fabrics at a bargain.

OH! So many places inspire my love and addiction to color!! Quilt stores, book stores, Pinterest, blogland, my own stash closet, art shows, magazines…and especially out in the natural world!! life is just toooooo short to live in shades of grey!! Color makes everything better!! Thanks for the givaway!!

The obvious answer is the internet, I mean, what isn’t up on it? But sometimes it’s great to get away from the computer and snuggle with a book and for that I love Kaffe Fassett’s Glorious Inspiration. It’s not one of his project books, just amazing photos from museums and life, and a complete riot of colour.

I found my new favorite color combos while driving to Hilton Head from Memphis earlier this year – the trees covered in varying purple blooms, light green early-growth leaves and gray tree trunks – was truly stunning!

Everywhere, is the short answer! Most recently driving through the mountains. The greens of the trees, especially the new brilliant greens of the Aspen trees, mixed with the deep green of the pines and the reds, grays, and browns of the mountains topped with dirty white snowcaps, and the colors of fast rushing streams from the snowmelt. Thank you!

Inspiration for colour?
The mediteranean blue sky, azure seas, the illuminating sheen on the feathers of a mallard ducks neck, the strawberry blonde hair of a toddler, the lush greens in a hedgerow, the patches and marls in tortoiseshell cats fur…..the chocolate, coffee and vanilla of ice cream…..how long have you got?
I could list sooooo many more creatively inspiring gems……..but there’d be no room for any one elses comments!

I get my color inspiration from walking up and down the isle at the fabric store till I find a focal fabric and then I start adding my other fabrics. I usually have some idea of what I am looking for and go on that. I love these colors. Bright is good. Its happy and uplifting.

I don’t have a particular place I go for color inspiration – it can be magazines, blogs, nature, etc. I just try to find it in everything. Usually the most inspirational things come from unxpected places.

I have Joen Wolfrom’s Studio Color Wheel hanging in my quilt room, and am finding lot’s of inspiration from that, I also live close to three National Parks and take lots of photos and use them as my inspiration for my quilts.

Color inspiration most of the time comes unexpectantly for me. Outside or inside it always amazes me when I suddenly feel that ‘click’ of inspiration. Who knew that I would look at a bowl of Froot Loops and know that those were the colors I was waiting for!

My favorite place to go for color inspiration is outside in nature, especially “Mama’s Garden.” This is where my mother plants flowering shrubs, plants and trees that she either grew from seed or cuttings, or is a “pass along” plant. Something is always blooming in Mama’s Garden. Thanks for the photos of your quilty contribution to the book, and the chance to win. mlwright29(at)hotmail(dot)com

I just walk into a quilt store and get my color inspiration. I am loving all the new fabrics coming out and I have always loved Kona cotton. Wouldn’t that be a nice surprise to win this wonderful book!

I sit at my large kitchen window, or out on my deck, and watch nature take her course through the seasons across our back yard, and the pastures and woodlands beyond…the whites, blues and blacks of winter, the pale greens and bursts of pastels in the spring, the deep greens and jewel tones of the summer, the bright swaths of brilliant color in the autumn, and always the colors of the western sky at dusk. Often have a quilt book or magazine in my lap; never fails to inspire either an urge to begin another quilt, or to relax and enjoy an old one (or at least a another picture of one I’d like to make)!

The best place to be inspired by color is in nature…the sky, sea, most especially gardens. This past weekend I spent some time on my daughter’s college campus and the flowers and greenery there is such so, so beautiful!
So I must not forget “nature”!

I’a have to say just about any place online has color “juice”, but really love looking at quilt blogs and pinterest…colorful world, that’s for sure. My hubby has a birds board on pinterest and wow! Talk about color. Thanks for the opportunity and have a colorful day

Living in New Orleans, all I have to do is take a walk down the block. The color combinations people choose for their shotguns are, at times, stunning. Whenever I see a beautifully painted, bright house I think – “Quilt!”

I go to my favorite quilt bloggers for inspiration. While other people may take a coffee break or a stretch at work, I click onto a quilting site and see the beautiful color combinations the quilters come up with. It’s truly refreshing and inspiring.

Midnight is so versatile, I can see why it is your favorite. I love purples so this color would be wonderful to incorporate in my quilts. This tour is expanding my quilting world. Thank you for an opportunity to win the book and fabric….wonderful combinations.

I look for inspiration in flowers and on websites of fabric shops and blogs. Also dream land, I had a dream this week about an amazing wall hanging I made for my bedroom, and I saw the colours and patterns together in close up. Thank you for a great giveaway.

I responded to one comment but did not leave my own “source” of color inspiration. When I really think about it, I believe that I am drawn to colors that are in some way connected to my emotions. The colors are all around, but the combinations or concentrations that stand out for me on any given day seem to be those that my mood attaches to.

I’m looking forward to reading this book one way or another! Thank you for the giveaway. I get my inspiration from interior design magazines, if there’s a room I love it’s usually because of the beautiful color combos in it!

I think color inspiration finds me more than I find it! Every now and then I will see something in magazines or online that inspires me, and often Nature shows me beautiful color combinations I may never have thought of.

I like going to Pinterest. It’s easy to search through projects that other people have done to get an idea of something that I want to do. It’s nice to see how their project turned out to see if I would like colors together too. Thanks!

For me i get my insperation when I recieve the new books I purchase and am amazed at so many colour mixtures, today I recieved my Modern Patchwork and combine this with We love Colour and you get ideas poping out of your mind, it’s like when I took my grandaughter yesterday into the toy store for the 1st time and she is only just turning 1 her little face lit up and her eyes were everywhere, the colours were everywhere, she did’nt know where to look and colour just comes at you, its about putting it all together, like a long adventure that you hope you thouroughly enjou

My favorite place to go is just outside specifically when the sunsets. It’s amazing how different the sky can be on a different day. I also live in Utah and we do have some amazing skies here especially against the mountains!

I do go to one exact place for inspiration of color. I just know what I want to use, or I go by my mood. I love a lot of different looks, but I usually have an idea of what I want even before I start making something. Thank you, so much, for the chance to win.

I get most of my color inspiration from fabric. Sometimes I chose colors that are either in or coordinate with a specific fabric, but mostly I just pull a bunch of different fabric together and see what happens. I go in binges where I am drawn to certain colors and combos subconsciously, which generally means I am onto something! Not all of my experiments work, but I love the process (and I love fabric).

I find color inspiration everywhere. The candy racks at the store, Pier 1 Imports, World Market, Pottery Barn, Land of Nod, my garden, google image searches, museum websites, and french clothing websites just to name a few.

Recently I have been noticing that I like the color combos in some classic children’s books. Caps For Sale and Green Eggs and Ham have some great color combos. Let’s just call looking for color inspiration while reading my kidos books multitasking, not obsession. ;)

It’s everywhere! I never know when a group of colors will just jump out at me and grab my attention – a shop window, a greeting card, even a printed fabric :-) Isn’t it great that we have materials in every imaginable color to create from?

I really like looking at clothing for color inspiration. So often I see combinations that I never would’ve thought of. This is such a great giveaway. I’m practically giddy at the thought of winning. Thanks for the chance!

I’d love to win this book. I have always liked working with solids!
Lately, my favorite place to go for color inspiration has been the produce section of the supermarket! Crazy I know, but it’s almost like the florist this time of year! Every bright color imaginable, and every shade in between.

I love modern quilting and Robert Kaufman Solids just seem to go hand in hand with many of my projects! I find inspiration through the world around me. The boldness in modern architecture, subtleties in color ranges, light and dark contrasts that pop unexpectedly from a project. I also love to study Modern Artists who paint in different mediums. Thank you for the opportunity to enter!

My favorite place for color inspiration is in the woods. This time of year all the wildflowers are in bloom. Right now my hillside is alive in yellow and white daisies. Different flowers come up and bloom from spring until late fall. Up in the woods there are so many colors of green. I love it. I would love to win the new colors and the book with all the talented Modern Artists in Quilting. Thank you for your continued inspiration and the wonderful giveaway.

My favorite place for color inspiration is just to step outside my front door! I see the green trees and the pops of color the flowers give, I see the sky with clouds, and I see the grey rocks of the driveway with the grasses. It takes my breath away. :)

My favorite place to go is to travel along the backroads of the Ozarks and see all the BEAUTIFUL wildflowers growing here, there and everywhere. We like to take walks and see all the little beauties tucked under trees, behind rocks, growing OUT of rocks… the most obscure places. Thanks for the chance to win such a FAB prize!

Thank you for sponsoring this giveaway. For color inspiration I often look at magazines and not just quilting magazines. I’ll look at magazines like Country Living, Cottage Style, and HGTV. When I see a room I particularly like, I’ll make note of the color cominations used in the room. If they work in a room, they’ll work in a quilt!

My inspiration tends to come from the fabrics themselves and pairing them up with various solids. I cut up my Kona color card into swatches, and I love to play around with different color combinations.

I find that I get the best color choices from nature. We live in the farming community outside of town. I love to drink a cup of coffee while looking at the view of the mountains with the beautiful colors in it, the sky, clouds, cows next to us, our chickens, the cherry orchard across the street from us, and the golden valleys all around us. There is soo much to get inspired in color around us. Thank you for the giveaway. I liked the sky blue you have up.

Color inspiration for me is a flower garden, or a walk in my woods – at any time of year. Right now though, its lunch time and I’m inspired by my bowl of blueberry granola .. thinking of a tan, blue-purple quilt!

This week has flown by with the Pillow Collective here! There’s four ladies sharing their pillows today :

Debbie Grifka

Christa Watson

Melissa Corry

Heather Valentine

I’ll be back...

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